Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
Willa Cather
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Willa Sibert Cather
May
Specifically
Might
Named
Without
Page
Pages
Created
Whatever
Upon
Felt
More quotes by Willa Cather
There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
Willa Cather
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
Willa Cather
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
Willa Cather
Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
Willa Cather
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
Willa Cather
More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
Willa Cather
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
Willa Cather
Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
Willa Cather
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
Willa Cather
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
Willa Cather
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Willa Cather
The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual those who were not have been long forgotten.
Willa Cather
The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
Willa Cather
The end is nothing the road is all.
Willa Cather
If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
Willa Cather
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather
There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
Willa Cather
This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
Willa Cather
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
Willa Cather
